bio
I am a polish-born painter based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Educated as an architect, with an MA from the Royal Danish Academy of Art and a BA from the University of Art in Poznan, for many years I have been an active member of the Copenhagen architecture scene, primarily associated with Cobe architects.
In 2020 I diverged my career path towards fine art, opening an art practice in which, through the medium of oil painting, I investigate topics such as the climatic shift, the tension between natural and artificial, as well as more personal topics of shared vulnerability and connection. I debuted in 2021 at a self-initiated duo exhibition ‘Something Like a Ritual’ held in Nordhavn, Copenhagen.
By painting the natural matter around me, I try to portray the ancient interplanetary quality of this earthly, domesticated landscape. My main interest is to evoke a more holistic and far less anthropocentric perspective both in myself and others.
statement
I believe that the main source of misunderstandings, conflicts, and the current planetary negligence is a fundamental lack of wider perspective. Used to our environments serving as a background to our everyday endeavors and convinced by history and culture about our exceptionality among other living beings, we’re in a permanent state of ‘narrowness’.
We treat ourselves awfully seriously, while treating all other forms of matter and energy terribly dismissively. To put it simply: we forget (or maybe never fully realize) that we’re a part of an immense, complex, largely mysterious (yet exploreable!) interplanetary, all-encompassing system. Without it, there is no us.
When looking at trees, I see beings whose genomes largely resemble mine. When looking at rocks, I see clusters of substances same to those that I’m made of. I see starlight reflected off their surfaces and I know that it is the same energy that can be found in any other part of the solar system and beyond. I sense that the giant push of the big bang fills us all with the same energy and it’s just a matter of a beautiful entropic coincidence that humans end up being humans, and rocks end up being rocks.
By portraying the matter around me, dead and alive, I hope I can inspire to look at it anew - to see the ancient interplanetary quality of this earthly, domesticated landscape. And I hope that, just like a wide angle lens, I can help restore the wider perspective.
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